The Dinosaurs
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Every week at the same time, in the same place, a group of women share their stories of recovery. As weeks slip into years and decades spin into eternity, the women keep coming back amidst an ever-shifting, unfamiliar world. Jacob Perkins’s The Dinosaurs is a piercingly funny, loving ode to the infinite, innately human battle between holding on and letting go.
Featured in The Dinosaurs
∞ Q&A with author Jacob Perkins and Playwrights Horizons associate artistic director Natasha Sinha
∞ An Introduction by playwright Agnes Borinsky
∞ Essays and reflections from:
New York Times best-selling author Leslie Jamison
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eboni Booth
Obie Award-winning director Lila Neugebauer
∞ Photos from the original production
Premiered February 4, 2026
Originally Produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in New York City
Published November 2, 2026
Print Length 152 pages
ISBN 979-8-9981410-2-7
Casting 6 females
The Dinosaurs Production Photos
The Dinosaurs
Playwrights Horizons, 2026.
April Matthis, Mallory Portnoy, Maria Elena Ramirez, Elizabeth Marvel.
Photography by Julieta Cervantes.
The Dinosaurs
Playwrights Horizons, 2026.
Kathleen Chalfant.
Photography by Julieta Cervantes.
The Dinosaurs
Playwrights Horizons, 2026.
Mallory Portnoy and Maria Elena Ramirez.
Photography by Julieta Cervantes.
The Dinosaurs
Playwrights Horizons, 2026.
Keilly McQuail.
Photography by Julieta Cervantes.
Praise for The Dinosaurs
Jacob Perkins’s carved-ivory play is exquisitely rendered on its own terms, and executes its purpose in a swift 70 minutes, when I felt as if I could happily have sat there with these women for a few more hours.
— Jackson McHenry
"★★★★ Elegantly elliptical and tender, The Dinosaurs’s characters are crisply individualized, and through their congregation, mutable yet constant, the play demonstrates the healing power of other people’s stories.”
— ADAM FELDMAN
“Jacob Perkins sees recovery meetings as useful models of acceptance and coexistence in a riven society, with people given the vital space to speak honestly and the latitude to mess up without being banished for it.”
— LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
"You could hear a pin drop. Time hovers around The Dinosaurs as a sleight of hand and when time is up, the stories simply stop being told; they don't end. There lingers an ache for more time."
— CAROLINE CAO
"The Dinosaurs is a stealth piece of writing, a brief (yet surprisingly detailed) play that quietly exerts a grip that won't be denied. A miniature that contains multitudes, this play demands and deserves one's close attention."
— DAVID BARBOUR